June 30, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



993 



professor of German; B. Franklin Lovelace, 

 Ph.D., now of the University of Alabama, to 

 be associate professor of chemistry; Samuel 

 O. Mast, Ph.D., now of Goucher College, to 

 be associate professor of zoology; August H. 

 Pfund, Ph.D., now associate, to be associate 

 professor of physics; Charles F. Meyer, A.B., 

 now fellow, to be assistant in applied elec- 

 tricity; Chester ~N. Myers, Ph.D., to be assist- 

 ant in chemistry. In the Medical Faculty: 

 Thomas E. Boggs, M.D., now associate, to be 

 associate professor of medicine; Charles D. 

 Snyder, Ph.D., now associate, to be associate 

 professor of physiology; Frank J. Sladen, 

 M.D., now instructor, to be associate in medi- 

 cine; William E. Purge, Ph.D., now assistant, 

 to be instructor in physiology; Karl M. Wil- 

 son, M.D., now assistant, to be instructor in 

 obstetrics; Solon A. Dodds, M.D., to be assist- 

 ant in obstetrics; Eli K. Marshall, Jr., Ph.D., 

 to be assistant in physiological chemistry; 

 Isaac R. Pels, M.D., to be assistant in derma- 

 tology; Maxwell Eoss, M.D., to be assistant 

 in medicine. 



Faculty additions and promotions in Adel- 

 bert College and the College for Women of 

 Western Reserve University have been made 

 as follows: Harry William Springsteen, as- 

 sistant professor of physics, to be associate 

 professor of physics ; Clinton Eaymond Stauf- 

 fer, Ph.D., associate professor of geology; 

 James K. Whittemore, M.A., appointed assist- 

 ant professor of mathematics ; Walter Edward 

 SuUivan, M.A., instructor in biology. Fac- 

 ulty promotions and appointments in the 

 medical department were made as follows: 

 George Washington Crile, Ph.D., M.D., for- 

 m.erly professor of clinical surgery, was ap- 

 pointed professor of surgery; Carl August 

 Hamann, M.D., formerly professor of anat- 

 omy, was appointed professor of applied anat- 

 omy and clinical surgery; Davidson Black, 

 M.B., was appointed associate in histology 

 and embryology. 



In %he University of Michigan Museum, 

 Dr. A. G. Euthven has been promoted to be 

 assistant professor of zoology and head cura- 

 tor of the museum; Miss Crystal Thompson 



has been made assistant in the museum. In 

 the Department of Zoology, Dr. A. F. Shull, 

 of Columbia University, has been made in- 

 structor in zoology, in place of Assistant Pro- 

 fessor A. S. Pearse, who has become assistant 

 professor of zoology in the University of the 

 Philippines; Dr. George La Eue, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, has been made instructor 

 in zoology. Assistant Professor O. C. Glaser 

 has been granted leave of absence during the 

 first half of the next academic year. 



At Eutgers College instructors have been 

 appointed as follows: F. F. Couch, M.E. 

 (Lehigh), in mechanical engineering; Floyd 

 E. Chidester, Ph.D. (Clark), in biology, and 

 Harry E. Lewis, B.Sc. (Ehode Island), in 

 dairy husbandry. 



Fraa'k a. Max ny, of the education and ex- 

 tension departments of the Western State 

 ISformal School, Kalamazoo, Mich., has been 

 appointed director of the training of teachers 

 in the city of Baltimore. 



The trustees of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania at a meeting held on June 12, 1911, 

 advanced Dr. John W. Harshberger from as- 

 sistant professor of botany to professor of 

 botany. 



DISCUSSION AND COEBESPONDENCE 



THE DISEASES OF ECONOMIC PLANTS 



The recent review of " Diseases of Eco- 

 nomic Plants" by Dr. W. A. Orton^ con- 

 tained statements which I feel impelled to 

 controvert, not in justification of the book, 

 but in order to place the facts in their proper 

 bearing before the readers of Science, lest 

 some not technically informed should be led 

 into erroneous conclusions by misstatements 

 ex cathedra. 



Some of his criticisms are merely matters 

 of personal opinion, as, for example, his views 

 on the use of the termination " ose " in nam- 

 ing diseases. This method was first sug- 

 gested several years ago in a committee re- 

 port before the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Section G, with Dr. 

 Halsted as chairman. It has been used to 



1 Science, April 21, 1911, 621. 



